TV Pilot Production Listings

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Backstage Staff
| Posted Nov. 20, 2009, 3:16 p.m.

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The following listings are not casting notices but instead reflect the best general information available about current casting assignments. Do your homework and use them wisely. Do not phone or visit casting directors' offices. Unless otherwise instructed, all contact with casting directors should be through the mail. Blind mass mailings are not recommended. An asterisk (*) denotes a changed listing.

TV PILOTS

ABC Family/Michael Jacobs Project (Dramedy). Vanessa Marano stars as Bailey Davidson, a 14-year-old who's lived in the shadow of her perfect and popular older sister all her life and thinks it's time to break out own her own and be herself—whatever that is. Produced by Michael Jacobs. Directed by Arlene Sanford. Casting: Angela Terry and Barbara Stordahl, Stordahl/Terry Casting, 5504 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. Shoots in mid-November. Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down (Comedy, Comedy Central). The ultimate sex, drugs, and party-life guide for the 20-something crowd. Written by Paul Sapiano and Sonny Lee. Directed by Luke Greenfield. Casting: Alyssa Weisberg, Alyssa Weisberg Casting, 4751 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd fl., L.A., CA 90010. Shoots in November.

Lawman (Drama, FX). Based on a short story by Elmore Leonard about a U.S. marshal in Kentucky struggling to balance work, dealings with his ex-wife, and an elderly father who's recently connected with an old friend on the wrong side of the law. Timothy Olyphant stars. Written by Graham Yost. Directed by Rod Holcomb. Shoots in November.

Eagleheart (Comedy, Adult Swim). A low-level television executive is sent to a dustbowl of a town in the far reaches of Texas to produce an adventure series with a spoiled star. Written and produced by Michael Koman and Andrew Weinberg. Casting: Marla Garlin, c/o Dakota Pictures, 4133 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91602. Shoots in November.

Jack & Dan (Dramedy, Fox). Jack, a clean-cut, ambitious, by-the-book cop works the small-property-crime division of the LAPD with Dan, an old-school out-of-control wack job and computerphobe who sticks around, hanging onto the heroic glory days of his past. Written and produced by Matt Nix. Casting: Wendy Weidman, FMW Casting, 6767 Forest Lawn Drive, Ste. 100, L.A., CA. 90068. Shoots in January 2010.

Mark Brazill Project (aka Rednecks and Romeos)(Comedy). A New York teen and his family make drastic adjustments to their formerly cushy life when the bad economy forces their father's car dealership to close. Written and created by Mark Brazill. Casting: Mark Hirschfeld, 6767 Forest Lawn Dr., Ste. 100, L.A., CA 90068. Shoots in November.

* NEW Pretty Little Liars (Drama/Mystery). The lives of five teenage girls who are best friends are tragically disrupted when one of them disappears. Three years later, the surviving teens find that their secrets known only by the presumed-dead girl are being exposed. Casting: Bonnie Zane and Gayle Pillsbury, Zane/Pillsbury Casting, 585 N. Larchmont Blvd., L.A., CA 90004. Shoots in early December.The Quickening (Drama, Fox). A bipolar detective relegated to desk duty works around the system to get back on the beat. Radha Mitchell stars. Casting: Eric Dawson, Ulrich/Dawson/Kritzer Casting, 4705 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Ste. 301, Valley Village, CA 90607. Shoots in November.

Rizzoli (Drama/Crime). A Boston police detective and a local medical examiner team up to track down serial killers, including one that has eluded the detective for years. Written by Janet Tamaro. Casting: Stacey Rosen, Stacey Rosen Casting, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 36, Rm. 154, Burbank, CA 91522. Shoots in November.

Some of My Best Friends (Comedy, VH1). A new scriptless, mostly improv series that revolves around the life of a TV reporter, Vivian, and her quirky group of friends. Directed by Gary Auerbach. Casting: Romy Stutman, Ron Cayanan, c/o VH1 Casting, 2600 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Shoots in December.The Station (Comedy, Fox). Operatives at a covert South American outpost of the CIA are tasked with installing a new dictator. Produced by Ben Stiller. Directed by David Wain. Casting: Juel Bestrop and Seth Yanklewitz, 4705 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Ste. 303, Valley Village, CA 91607. Shoots in December.Undercovers (Drama/Action). J.J. Abrams' new series about a married couple who work together as spies. Produced by Abrams and Josh Reims. Casting: April Webster, April Webster and Assocs., 800 S. Main St., 2nd fl., Burbank, CA 91506. Shoots in early 2010.

MOWs/MINISERIES* NEW Den Brother (Teen, Family). A cocky high school hockey player gets suspended from the team and is volunteered by his parents to be his younger sister's 'den brother' for her all-girls activity group. Written by Jim Krieg. Casting: Carol Goldwasser and Howard Meltzer, Goldwasser/Meltzer Casting, Hollywood Center Studios, 1040 N. Las Palmas, Bldg. 33, 2nd fl., L.A., CA 90038. Shoots in February 2010. Gideon's Gift (Holiday, Religious). A young girl struggling to overcome her cancer connects with a cantankerous homeless man at Christmas time. Based on the spiritual novel by Karen Kingsbury. Casting: Mary Jo Slater and Steve Brooksbank, 1135 N. Mayfield Ave., 3rd fl. L.A., CA 90038. Shoots early 2010. NEW TV SERIES

Community (Comedy). "The Soup" host Joel McHale stars as Jeff Crocker, a smooth-talking lawyer who is forced to return to community college when his undergrad degree is revoked. Out of sheer survival, he pairs up with a misfit study group headed by Chevy Chase. Casting: Dava Waite Peaslee Casting, c/o Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Ave., N. Gower Mill Bldg., Rm. 117, L.A., CA 90038. Premiered: Sept. 17.

Cougar Town (Comedy, CBS). A 40-something divorcée with a 17-year-old son boldly goes where few in her small Florida town have gone before when she jumps back into the dating scene. Courteney Cox stars. Casting: Debby Romano and Brett Benner. Office address N/A at this time. Premiered: Sept. 23.

Day One (Sci-fi, NBC). In the aftermath of the global devastation of the world's infrastructures, a small group of surviving neighbors in a Van Nuys, Calif., apartment complex works to rebuild society and solve the question of what happened in the first place. Casting: Sari Knight and Amanda Sherman, Sherman/Knight Casting, c/o Casting Society of America, 606 N. Larchmont Blvd., Ste. 4B, L.A., CA 90004. Premiere: TBA.

The Deep End (Drama, ABC). Four eager associates join a prestigious L.A. law firm only to find it more of a scathing, cutthroat house of greed than they could ever have imagined. Midseason replacement. Casting: Libby Goldstein, The Lot, 1041 N. Formosa, Formosa Bldg., Ste. 94, L.A., CA 90046. Premiere: TBA.

Drop Dead Diva (Comedy, Lifetime). Resurrected Fox series about a selfish, shallow model-actor who dies in an accident and returns in the body of a brilliant, plus-size attorney. Casting: Carol Kritzer, Ulrich/Dawson/Kritzer, 4705 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Ste. 301, Valley Village, CA 91607. Premiered: July 12.Failure to Fly (NY) (Dramedy, Starz). A group of people contemplate taking their own lives. Written by Eric Schaeffer and Jill Franklyn. Casting: Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee, Barden/Schnee Casting, 150 W. 28th St., Ste. 402, New York, NY 10001. Shoots in late October and early November in New York. Flash Forward (Drama, ABC). A mysterious global event causes everyone to black out simultaneously for two minutes and 17 seconds. Slowly some of them remember they hadn't blacked out at all—but shot six months into the future to see a sliver of what was to come. Joseph Fiennes stars. Casting: Wendy O'Brien, Wendy O'Brien Casting, 2233 Barry Ave., 2nd fl., L.A., CA 90064. Premiered: Sept. 24.

The Forgotten (Drama/Crime, ABC). A group of dedicated amateur detectives, the members of the all-volunteer Identity Network, attempt to reconstruct the pieces of nameless victims' lives from what little evidence is left behind. Casting: April Webster, April Webster & Associates, 800 Main St., Ste. 251, Burbank, CA 91506. Premiered: Sept. 22.

Gigantic (Dramedy, Nickelodeon). The privileged daughter of two Hollywood stars returns to Los Angeles after a two-year film shoot over seas with her parents to find everything and everyone she knew has changed, and left her behind in the process. Written and produced by Marti Noxon. Actress Mariel Hemingway's daughter Dree stars. Casting: Scott Genkinger and Deborah George, Junie Lowry-Johnson Casting, 100 Universal City Plaza, Bungalow 5165, Universal City, CA 91608. Premiere: TBA.

Good Luck Charlie (Teen, Disney). Two teens are left in charge of their younger sister when their parents have to go back to work. Bridgit Mendler stars. Casting: Sally Stiner and Barbie Block, c/o Sunset Bronson Studios, 5800 W. Sunset Blvd., Bldg. 10, 1st fl., L.A., CA 90028. Premiere: TBA.The Good Wife (NY) (Drama, CBS). Julianna Margulies stars as a wife and mother who must take full responsibility for her family when her politician husband lands in jail after a very public sex and corruption scandal. Casting: Mark Saks, L.A. Center Studios, 1201 W. Fifth St., Ste. M-160, L.A., CA 90017. Premiered: Sept. 22. Happy Town (Crime/Drama, ABC). In Haplin, Minnesota, buried secrets come to light when the peace is shattered by the town's first crime in years. Casting: Donna Rosenstein, 800 S. Main St., Ste. 202, Burbank, CA 91506. Premiere: TBA.* NEW Hard Times (Comedy). Coming-of-age series about a geeky high school teen who becomes infamous when his unique anatomical gift is exposed. Paul Iacono stars. Casting: David Rapaport, "Hard Times Casting," c/o MTV Networks, 2600 Colorado Ave., Room 32, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Shoots the end of November.

Make It or Break It (ABC Family). A group of teen Olympic gymnastics hopefuls train and prepare for their day in the spotlight. Casting: Dan Shaner and Michael Testa, c/o Shaner/Testa Casting, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 261, Burbank, CA 91522. Premiered: July 6.

The Middle (Comedy, ABC). Patricia Heaton stars as Frankie Heck—the middle-class, middle-aged, middle-of-the-country wife, mother of three, and car salesman at the No. 1 used-car dealership in Jasper, Ind. Life may not be glamorous or showy for Frankie, but she's at home in the place where family comes first and folks do whatever it takes to keep that family together. Casting: Deborah Barylski, c/o 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 136, Rm. 226, Burbank, CA 91522. Premiered: Sep. 30.

Modern Family (Comedy, ABC). An international filmmaker documents the lives of three families: one with a stay-at-home dad, another in which a gay couple experience first-time fatherhood with the adoption of a Vietnamese child, and the third in which a 60-year-old man becomes an instant dad when he marries a 30-something Latina mother. Casting: Jeff Greenburg & Associates, 5555 Melrose Ave., Marx Bros. Bldg., #102, L.A., CA 90028. Premiered: Sep. 23.

Parenthood (Comedy). The everyday lives of members of different branches of the same family and the challenges of parenting in an era characterized by cell phones, MP3 players, and social networking. Casting: Cami Patton/Jennifer Lare, 4640 Lankershim Blvd., Ste. 511, North Hollywood, CA 91602. Premiere: TBA.

Past Life (Supernatural). A pair of past-life detectives investigate to find out if what is happening to a victim or perpetrator today is the result of who they were before in a past life. Kelli Giddish and Nicholas Bishop star. Casting: Cami Patton, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 707, L.A., CA 90028. Premiere: TBA.

V (Sci-fi/Drama, ABC). Remake of the classic '80s miniseries about the arrival of aliens on Earth, who promise a mission of peace but have a calculated war on their minds. Casting: Gayle Pillsbury and Bonnie Zane, Zane/ Pillsbury Casting, 585 N. Larchmont Blvd., L.A., CA 90004. Premiered: Nov. 3.

Victorious (Comedy/Musical/Teen, Nickelodeon). The traumas, wins, disasters, and loves at a high school for the performing arts. Series features original music. Produced by Evan Katz and Howard Gordon. Casting: Debi Manwiller and Peggy Kennedy, Pagano/Manwiller Casting, 2115 Third St., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Premiere: TBA.

White Collar (Drama/Action, USA). After his release from prison, all a former con wants is to get back together with his girlfriend, but he finds himself coerced into helping the FBI hook other con men. Directed by Dennie Gordon. Written by Jeff Eastin and Clifton Campbell. Casting: Julie Tucker and Ross Meyerson, Julie Tucker Casting, 568 Broadway, Ste. 301, New York, NY 10012. Premiered: Oct. 23.Zeke and Luther (Teen, Disney). Two best friends wheel their way to the top of the skateboarding world. Produced by Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhar. Casting: Sally Steiner and Barbie Block, Stiner/Block Casting, 1040 N. Las Palmas, Bldg. 2, 1st Floor, L.A., CA. Premiered: June 22.